William Ellery Channing Quotes
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I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
Wallace Shawn
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What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whether the characters are rich or not, and if I can do justice to the character or not. Some movies you look at and the script is so bad that no one can do anything with the script.
Larenz Tate
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Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.
John Travolta
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Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
Oswald Chambers
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You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane
Rachel Caine
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The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.
Walker Percy
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I don't worry about losing all my fans. Whatever true fans you've got will stick by you, so that's nothing to worry about
B.J. Penn
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You can never find the right bowling ball. This one's too heavy. This one's good but its pink!
Jim Gaffigan
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There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.
Susan Minot
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I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was also a man of deep conviction.
Chris Matthews
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Play is the highest from of research.
Albert Einstein
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How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.
William Morris Hunt
